1935 – Hospital, Portlaoise, Co. Laois
In 1935 Scott & Good designed Portlaoise General Hospital. This building unlike its predecessor at Tullamore,
In 1935 Scott & Good designed Portlaoise General Hospital. This building unlike its predecessor at Tullamore,
The third Theatre Royal opened on September 23, 1935 in Hawkins Street. Designed by English architect Leslie Norton in conjunction with Dublin firm Scott &
Unbuilt design for St. Ultan’s Hospital on Charlemont Street, Dublin. In the Ireland of the 1930s,
Scott’s hospital at Tullamore, although faced with traditional limestone masonry, has a very strong horizontal linearity and glazed stairwell that show a Dutch Modernist influence in the massing and the use of a round bay in the centre of the main block.
Michael Scott (1905-1988) is considered the most important architect of the twentieth century in Ireland. Apart from Busáras, his most important buildings include his own home Geragh at Sandycove and Donnybrook Bus Garage.